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00:00In northern Lebanon, an Israeli air attack on the Christian-majority town of Aitou left

00:12at least 21 people killed.

00:18The government of Haiti denounces the discriminatory deportations carried out by the Dominican

00:22Republic and requests a halt to such deportations.

00:29And the Chinese government accused the United States government Monday of creating the hacker

00:34group Voltaifun to spread false information and incriminate the Asian nation.

00:44Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.

00:48We begin with the news.

00:59In northern Lebanon, at least 21 people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the

01:12Christian-majority town of Aitou in the region of Zagarta.

01:16The death toll was confirmed by the Lebanese Red Cross after an early report by the country's

01:21health ministry had initially informed nine deaths.

01:24In the aftermath of the strike that hit a residential building, Red Cross volunteers

01:29searched for survivors in the rubble as ambulances evacuated several wounded.

01:35Israeli strikes on the country have mainly been concentrated in southern areas where

01:39the Zionist regime claims Hezbollah built its power base.

01:43In this regard, according to Lebanese state media, the attack marks the first time the

01:47area was hit by the Israeli army in a year of hostilities and its target remains unclear.

01:59The Israeli regime committed four new massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip

02:03in the last few hours, leaving more than 60 people dead.

02:07Health officials informed that several victims are still under the rubble and scattered on

02:11the streets and warned that the death toll could rise.

02:14They also reported a total of 220 wounded from these recent massacres as the Zionist

02:20regime continues its aggression that has killed more than 42,300 Palestinians since the October

02:282023 onslaught.

02:30In this context, according to the estimates of the medical authorities, about 10,000 people

02:35are still missing under the rubble and are yet to be rescued.

02:44In addition, over 50 Palestinians have been arrested by the Israeli regime in the occupied

02:49West Bank in the last 24 hours.

02:51The increase in arrests is concentrated in the governorates of Bethlehem and Jenin, as

02:56well as in other Palestinian localities.

02:59In this regard, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Committee for the Affairs

03:03of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners denounced that the Israeli occupation is advancing its aggressions

03:08during detentions by subjecting the victims and their families to harassment and threats.

03:18In Cuba, people marched on Monday to condemn the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government

03:24for more than a year against the Palestinian population and other Middle East tensions.

03:29This way, the demonstration called by the Kemenite Youth Union of the Caribbean country

03:34denounced the complicity of the United States in the Zionist onslaught that has cost more

03:38than 42,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, and more than

03:432,000 in Lebanon.

03:45In the capital, Havana, the participants marched from the Mardi Forge to the Anti-Imperialist

03:50Tribune.

03:51In the rest of the country, there were open tribunes to demand the end, without conditions

03:57or delays, of the Israeli escalation in the Middle East.

04:14Those who choose silence, we know from our revolutionary struggle that silence before

04:18pressure means complicity and we, the Cuban people, the Cuban youth, are not accomplices

04:23of this act.

04:24We are not accomplices of terrorism as long as the Zionist state of Israel together with

04:28the government of the United States continue tearing innocents in Palestine, Lebanon,

04:33Syria, Yemen.

04:34Our dreams and our actions must be multiplied in our schools.

04:37We are talking about the genocide that is being committed today.

04:40We are getting closer to the reality of the Palestinian children and teenagers who only

04:45dream of seeing their parents and siblings.

04:47The more we know about the Palestinian reality, the more we are committed and the more we

04:51are driven to continue supporting it.

04:58In this context, the student from Antigua and Barbuda at the Latin American School of

05:02Medicine in Cuba, Joshua McCorshin, addressed the importance of this demonstration in support

05:08of the Palestinian people.

05:10So today we've got it here to march, to represent in commemoration of the first anniversary

05:16of the war against Palestine.

05:20This march, all of us got it here standing in solidarity with Palestine because we understand

05:24that what is occurring should not happen to anyone in the world and we want to say that

05:28how despite them being a country, they have representation all over the world.

05:32Because we have people here from different parts of the world.

05:35Myself, I'm from Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean.

05:38We have people here from South America, from Asia, from Africa, from all over the world.

05:44Let's take a short break but remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesuddinglish

05:48where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.

05:51We'll be right back, stay with us.

06:11Welcome back.

06:12The government of Haiti denounces the discriminatory deportations carried out by the Dominican

06:16Republic and requests a halt to such deportations.

06:19During a meeting with representatives of international human rights organizations, the Haitian Foreign

06:25Minister Dominique Dupuy condemned the discriminatory behaviour of the Dominican government.

06:31Dupuy described the deportations of Haitians as abusive, so the representative of the Observatory

06:37of Human Rights, Ida Sawyer, asked Santo Domingo to stop the deportations until Haiti reaches

06:42stability.

06:43Meanwhile, the Haitian Presidential Transition Council described the Dominican Republic's

06:48deportation campaign as brutal and racist, following the official report that estimates

06:54that at least 11,177 Haitian citizens have been repatriated in the first week of the

07:01operation.

07:06Mexican authorities deployed more than 1,000 soldiers to confront organized crime in the

07:11state of Michoacán.

07:13The troops arrived at the 43-military zone based in Apatzingán to carry out duties of

07:19patrolling and to fight criminal organizations which are mainly harassing farmers who are

07:24the victims of continuous extortion and violence.

07:27The uniformed officers, whose task is to warrant the security, will have armored vehicles from

07:33the Secretariat of National Defense to patrol rural and urban zones.

07:39The administration of Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum will build one million new

07:57homes to address the housing shortage affecting mainly the north and south of the country.

08:03The Secretariat of Agricultural, Territorial and Urban Development announced that half

08:07of these houses will be built by the Mexican federal institution Infonavit and the other

08:13half by the National Housing Commission.

08:15The housing project will also address an improvement and enlargement program for 450,000 houses

08:22in the country, particularly in areas with higher economic delays and indexes of vulnerability.

08:29The housing plan is expected to generate 6 million direct jobs and 9 million indirect

08:34jobs.

08:38Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted the development of the Welfare Polls plans

08:45which will be implemented in future investments made in the nation.

08:49We have developed a program that we call Welfare Polls where the goal is to encourage investment,

08:57to encourage companies that demand water to invest in the country where there is access

09:04to water, to generate recycling conditions and at the same time to continue to comply

09:10with the increase in salaries in the country and that the homes that we are going to build

09:16are also associated with these development polls, Welfare Polls.

09:23Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced changes to the General Staff of the Bolivarian

09:28National Armed Forces in order to continue to warranty the independence, security and

09:32peace of Venezuela.

09:34The Venezuelan Head of State informed the ratification of General-in-Chief Bladimir

09:38Padrino López as Minister of People's Power for Defense and General-in-Chief Domingo

09:43Antonio Hernández Lárez as Head of the Strategic Operational Command.

09:48On the other hand, Maduro announced the appointment of Major General Johan Alexander Hernández

09:53Lárez as General Commander of the Bolivarian Army and Admiral Asraf and El Hadi as Commander

10:00of the Bolivarian Navy.

10:02The Bolivarian President thanked the outgoing officers for their fulfillment of their responsibilities

10:07and wished success to those holding the new position.

10:15During his regular Monday TV program Con Maduro Más, More with Maduro, the Venezuelan Head

10:21of State praised the popular nature and high level of professionalism of the Bolivarian

10:27Armed Forces and reaffirmed that the nation has created a perfect military structure to

10:32defend peace in Venezuela.

10:36Now we have a popular army, a national armed force that is highly professional with high

10:46academic level, the highest in history.

10:49We also have a military university.

10:52We have a structure, a popular military police structure that is perfect to defend peace

10:59in our country.

11:01On Monday, Venezuela announced the arrival of the vessel Doña José Segundo, which will

11:06begin collecting and updating data for the development of gas production.

11:10The Executive Vice President, Delsi Rodríguez, indicated that the measure will be carried

11:15out in the Dragan Field, northwest of the Paria Peninsula, Sucre State, with maritime

11:21borders with Trinidad and Tobago, as established in the intergovernmental agreement between

11:26the two countries.

11:27At the same time, she emphasized that the project will allow the country to firmly advance

11:32in the growth of the sector's potential, providing an opportunity for foreign investment.

11:38The Vice President also indicated that the country is on the path to become a gas exporter.

11:46The National Assembly of Venezuela received the document on the Budget Law of the Nation

11:53for 2025, which will be discussed in the coming weeks by this parliamentary entity.

11:58The document, delivered by the Sectorial Vice President of Planning, Ricardo Menéndez,

12:03considers the approval of more than 514 million dollars allocated to a variety of initiatives,

12:09social programs and plans of the National Executive to strengthen the country's production.

12:14The text is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly during the second week of

12:19December for its discussion and approval.

12:27We have a second short break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube

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12:41world's most recent events.

12:43Final short break, don't go away.

13:01Welcome back to From the South.

13:03The Chinese government accused the United States government Monday of creating the hacker

13:08group Vault Typhoon to spread false information and incriminate the Asian nation.

13:13According to China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, the United States

13:18has been creating an international ransomware group to incriminate China and other countries.

13:23The agency also accused Washington of using the undersea fiber optics infrastructure to

13:28carry out massive cyber espionage and surveillance operations across the world.

13:33On the other hand, Beijing's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning condemned what she

13:38called the irresponsible actions of the United States and urged an immediate end to its cyber

13:44attacks worldwide.

13:51The United States used advanced technical tools to incriminate other countries in order

13:55to launch cyber attacks.

13:57It inserted strings in several languages, such as Chinese, to cheat the traceability

14:02attribution analysis and incriminate other countries.

14:05It is worth noting that Guam, the place that the United States claimed to be the victim

14:10of Vault Typhoon cyber attacks, is actually the launcher of a large number of cyber attacks

14:15against China and many Southeast Asian countries.

14:19The Chinese spokesperson also warned that the United States was a threat for the global

14:24cyber security.

14:26The facts revealed in the report show once again who is the biggest threat to global

14:30cyber security.

14:31The U.S. government has so far not only turned a blind eye to the report, but also has continued

14:36to spread disinformation, including Typhoon Vault.

14:40China condemns such irresponsible actions by the U.S. and urges Washington to immediately

14:45stop its global cyber attacks and stop defaming China using cyber security issues.

14:50Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in Beijing for talks with his Chinese

14:55counterpart Dong Yun.

14:57During the meeting, the Chinese minister pointed out that the two armies should deepen strategic

15:02cooperation and improve the quality and effectiveness of their cooperation.

15:06In this regard, Belousov stressed that the Russian-Chinese military cooperation is a

15:11key element to increase the defense potential and to maintain the stability of the region.

15:17Moscow noted its readiness to work with Beijing to continue efficient cooperation and join

15:22the address new global security challenges.

15:35I have a close and fruitful cooperation with the Chinese comrades.

15:39I am convinced that today's talks will serve for further strengthening of the bilateral

15:43I am convinced that today's talks will serve for further strengthening of the Russian-Chinese

15:47strategic partnership in the military plan and have reached an unprecedented level with

15:51a key role in strengthening strategic ties lies in reliable contacts between the leaders

15:56of the two countries.

16:01Russia's President Vladimir Putin met Monday with the chair of the nation's Central Election

16:05Commission, Ela Panfilova, to discuss about the electoral campaigns held in the country

16:10in 2024.

16:11The head of the nation's highest electoral body said that both the presidential elections

16:16and those held during the so-called Single Voting Day were carried out without difficulties.

16:21She also indicated that the remote electronic voting system was extended to 37 regions.

16:27Panfilova also informed that by 2025 a new digital electoral platform named Gas Vibery

16:35in its 2.0 version will be launched, replacing the automated state system.

16:45Rwanda's Minister of Health Sabine Saminsana reported Monday that the Marburg virus outbreak

16:51is under control.

16:53During a meeting with diplomatic corps and development partners, the High Health Official

16:58praised the vaccination strategies put in place by the Rwandan government to tackle

17:03the disease.

17:04Last week, the African country received 700 doses of a vaccine under trial, which has

17:10been offered to health professionals and those who have come into contact with confirmed

17:15cases.

17:16Chief Medical Officers at King Faisal Hospital, Agustin Sendeguikeja, affirmed that although

17:22the vaccine is still under trial, he believes it is safe and could be inviolable for those

17:28who are at risk of becoming infected.

17:3113 people have reportedly died from the disease in Rwanda since the outbreak was announced

17:35on September 27.

17:42In central Nigeria, two major rivers have flooded, displacing tens of thousands of people.

17:48Rescue workers in Kogi State have been helping residents move away from the confluence of

17:53the Niger and Venu rivers to displacement camps or nearby villages.

17:58According to the Red Cross Disaster Management Officer in Kogi, Umar V. Mahmud, there are

18:04more than 60,000 people displaced and about 150,000 acres of land underwater.

18:10On the other hand, Kogi State's Information Commissioner, Kingsley Fanwo, reported that

18:16displacement camps are becoming overwhelmed and estimated that more than one million people

18:21could be affected in affected areas.

18:24Nigeria often sees floods during the May to November rainy season, but there are fears

18:30these years could be even worse than 2022.

18:44Floods happen year after year and destroy something in our area.

18:47We need the local government to help us.

18:50We were sleeping at night and it was my son who woke up to go to the bathroom and discovered

18:56that the water had submerged the house and everything was flooded.

19:01We have come to the end of this news brief, but you can find these and many other stories

19:05on our website at TellUsInEnglish.net and join us on social media, Facebook, Instagram,

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19:13For Tell Us In English, I'm Alejandra Garcia.

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